Tag: UCI
-
Transparency Statement on Leaving UCI Divest, Practicing Transformative Justice, and Upcoming Collective Work
Dear Community – We write this statement to share key updates and reflections we have been undergoing the last several months. This format and brevity are not enough to capture the experiences and lessons we want to communicate. We are at the start of another school year and are picking up collective work so we…
-
Walkout for Palestine Zine-making Event
Collective Writing & Chalking Inspired by the Cao Collective’s Collective Poetry Workshops, we invited everyone who walked out and join the gathering to pick up a pen and a paper to write about what “resistance” at UC Irvine means to them. The process was simple: each person has 2 minutes to write whatever comes to…
-
First Reading Group
Note: This event is only for members of the UCIRNF Collective Zine-making Group Pre-reading Notes Intention & Grounding In preparation for our second zine on institutional memories of UCI student movements, particularly the anti-apartheid divestment campaign in the 90s, we raise a series of questions. Logistics Please browse the pdfs below and read the following…
-
CALL TO ACTION: Resist the UC Regents Using Your Tuition and Labor to Fund Genocide
Resist the UC Regents Using Your Tuition and Labor to Fund Genocide! Register for Public Comment Here and Attend Our Rally on Wednesday 3/21 at 1:30 PM. ACTION ITEMS BELOW. Hello all, We write to update you on the status of an ongoing genocide, and of the material investment of our institution, the UC, in…
-
Don’t Look Away from Palestinian Wounds: Toward A Trauma-Informed Social Science
See full event note here See resource list for decolonizing trauma and healing here Message from PoliSci Grads: Hi, what does unwellness and/or numbness feel like? Months of ongoing genocides that your labor and money directly contribute to, “this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal” (Aaron Bushnell). This is an ongoing psychological warfare and…
-
PLW Zine Workshop
Preparation Presentation Making Zines! RSVP Here This is a 2-hour zine workshop- Abolish the Imperial University Join us for a political education session on UCI’s history of counterinsurgency, followed by a collective session of brainstorming, art-making, and knowledge production against the university. This workshop introduces zines as both an art and an organizing format. We…
-
Counter-Insurgency and the UCIntifada
Our vision is to reclaim narrative. Our vision is for political education to be(come) praxis. Tobe(come) a constant praxis of finding and living and breathing other ways of being. Our vision is to tell stories that might, that must, be(come) woven into the fibers of our individual and collective bodies. Our vision is to ask…
-
Nov 2023 Pro-Palestinian Students Face Allegations of Violating University Conduct at UC Irvine
Sign-on in support using these links As an Organization: https://forms.gle/kJJV5yMFMoo6bVeDA As an Individual: https://chng.it/7GFYP6tkkB We, five individual students and board members of Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Irvine, are facing six allegations from the University for two different cases, one on November 9th and the other November 14th. These allegations exceed mere administrative procedures; it strikes…
-
Nov 2023 URGENT: UCI Files Student Conduct Charges Against Students!
1) CLICK HERE to send an already populated email to UCI administration demanding that they drop conduct charges against this student. Your emails are crucial in pressuring UCI! 2) CLICK HERE to sign the petition demanding all conduct charges be dropped. 3) CLICK HERE to register for a collective phone zap today, Tuesday, November 21, at 3:00…
-
Nov 2023 Open Letter to UCI Political Science
Dear Professor Chambers, Before you read the letter, ground yourself through the guide to Depth Conversation by the GTDF Collective, this is important. As graduate students in Political Science at UCI, we are extremely concerned and anxious about our right to quality education, our moral faith in the leading faculty members in the department, and…
Rank and File Irvine 